SARAH MALLORY was born in the West Country and grew up with a love of reading and history. Since her first book in 1983 she has had over twenty historical romantic novels published. Writing as Melinda Hammond, she won the Singletitles.com Reviewers’ Award in 2005 for Dance for a Diamond and her novel Gentlemen in Question was a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice in 2006.
She is now concentrating on writing her romantic historical adventures for Harlequin Mills & Boon and won the Rona Rose Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association in 2012 and 2013.